Missional engagement (ICA)

This is experienced as simply joining in covenants in society. Part of participating in these covenants is the conserving function or the maintaining of the covenant in being. It occurs when one joins in social covenants that involve a commitment to maintain and create order, as when everyone turns out to protect a small community faced with a flood.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of acting out one's engagement (the life of obedience) the first formal aspect is embodying peace as the establishment to enable the ordering of human affairs. At the first phenomenological level this occurs when a person becomes aware that he is not autonomous, but rather is bound unto death to other people.